Paranormal Great Lakes: An Illustrated Encyclopedia

By Charles Cassady Jr.

Book Overview

The first A-to-Z listing of extraordinary, supernatural, paranormal, and Fortean/inexplicable phenomena on the American Great Lakes. These five majestic freshwater seas--Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie, Michigan and Ontario--have hosted a treasure-trove of fantastic sailors' tales, mysteries, and legends. Here abide the long-standing rumors, myths and lore about mermaids, ghost ships, lake monsters, UFOs, USOs, vortices and triangles, Flying Dutchmen, wendigos, spook lights, haunted lighthouses, headless apparitions, melancholy mist-maidens, curses, talismans, thunderbirds, and sorcerers. Presented for the traveler, folklorist, ghost-buster, skeptic, cryptozoologist, or the just plain curious.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764332953
• ISBN13: 9780764332951
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"